Improvement in overalls



H. S. FLOOD Overalls.

No. 198,287. Patented Dec. 18, 1877.

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HENRY S. FLOOD, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN OVERALLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,287, dated December18, 1877; application filed November 15,1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY S. FLooD, of San Francisco city and county,State of California, have invented Improvements in Overalls and Jumpers;and I do hereby declare the following description and accompanyingdrawings are sufficient to enable any person skilled in the art orscience to which it most nearly appertains to make and use my saidinvention or improvement without further invention or experiment.

My invention relates to overalls and articles of outside wear; andconsists in making such articles with external pockets-that is, pocketsopening from the outside-waterproof on the outer sides, so that themoisture from rain, or from wet articles carried by the wearer, andbearing against the outside of the garment, cannot pass from the outsideinto and injure articles within the pocket.

In the drawings the figures show sufficient of a pair of overalls toillustrate my invention.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 shows a front View. Fig.2 shows a rear view.

A represents a pair of overalls or article of outside wear.

One great difficulty experienced by laboring men in wet weather is topreserve the articles which they carry in their pockets-such as tobaccoand the like-flour becoming wet. This is especially the case when thewearer is handling an article or substance that is saturated with water,as that part of his person contiguous to the pockets is most frequentlybrought in contact with the article handled, thus soaking the pocketsand their contents with water.

To avoid this I make the outside part a. of india-rubber cloth or othermaterial which is impervious to water.

Although it would be better to make all of the pockets in this way, itwill be sufficient for the protection of the articles which it isordinarily desired to keep dry to have only one of the pockets thuslined or protected, and where both of the front pockets of a pair ofoveralls are thus protected, they cover alarge portion of that part ofthe person against which the load which a workman carries usually bears,so that they will in a great measure protect the person also.

It will be seen that the front a of a special pocket may be made ofwater-proof cloth, as shown in Fig. 1, or the entire front a of thepocket may be water-proof, as in Fig. 2, and that such pocket may be atfront or back of the garment, the latter being necessary where loads ofwet coals are carried in sacks on the back.

To prevent the rain from getting into the pockets, I cover them with aflap, b, which is also made out of or lined with india-rubber.

For the better protection of the wearer, I also line the overalls eitherentirely or partially with some warm fabric, such as canton-flannel andthe like, thus providing an article of outside wear that will becomfortable, and will protect the wearer and the articles which hecarries in his pockets.

As cheapness is a desideratum in the manufacture of these overalls, Iprefer to cut out the lining employed with the body material, so thatwhen sewed together they will be united by one and the same row ofstitches.

I am aware that articles of outside wear have been made entirely ofindia-rubber cloth; but they are expensive and. disagreeable, not onlyto the wearer, but to every person who comes in contact with them.

What I claim is- 1. As a new article of manufacture, overalls or otherarticles of outside wear of ordinary woven material, provided with alining, and having external pockets, the outer sides a of which arewater-proof, as set forth, whereby the articles within the pockets areprotected from wet or moisture coming in contact with the outside of thegarment.

2. An outside garment of woven material, having external pockets, withwater-proof outer sides a and flaps b of like material, substan tiallyas set forth.

HENRY S. FLOOD.

Witnesses:

GEo. H. STRONG, J NO. L. Boom.

